Has something happened to you in a game that broke the immersion?

[chase211]

Whenever the textures don't load on an Unreal engine game, I can hear the immersion break like a twig.

Yep, I hate the new trend of streaming graphics, its crap. The same problem happened for me in Gears 1 and 2 as well as Mass Effect.

 

[Cuacuani]

In Assassin's Creed 2 (or the first one, they both have the same problem), when various NPCs yell the same predesignated sound clip at you.

Though to be fair, while this does break immersion like a knife to butter, it's usually too funny to warrant any complaining. It's just been happening so often lately.

And to be even more fair, the Assassin's Creed games aren't the only ones with the problem.

The most amusing of these I had on AC2 was when climbing a ladder to get to the rooftops. There was a group of thieves at the top and upon reaching the rooftops after my rather easy ascent, I was greeted with 'Wow! How did you do that? You make it look so easy!'

Off topic here, but I needed to post this when I saw your avatar.

Nosferatu? A fellow WoD player?

Indeed. It's all about the Sewer Rats and Creeps.

 

[NotAPie]

Anytime I'm on a scavenger hunt in a video game and I can't find one of the things I'm looking for. It;'s worse when you have a little marker indicating where the object is, but it's not there. Scrambling around for minutes looking for something I should be able to find in seconds always kills immersion for me.

Which is happening to me right now in Borderlands.

I'll have to agree with you on that, it kills the immersion and gives me a damn headache.

 

[Jekken6]

Glitches, dying and wildly inconsistent framerate.

 

[theultimateend]

The best part is that everytime you bring up the issue to Bethesda it is your systems fault. Even if you are on a console.

Bethesda games are bitter sweet.

In theory they are so fucking good. But in practice they crash more frequently than Courtney Love.

I wasn't talking about the games crashing, I was stating how I believe them to be so far against the idea of immersion that they took it out to the field in the back with a crowbar in hand.

Well slap my ass and call me captain conundrum. I must have been high or something.

My bad on the misquote . I totally read your post as something different. Confirmation bias ftl.

For everyone complaining about achievement notifications, I'm pretty sure there is an option to disable those. Though I don't find them to be annoying.

I enjoy games so little these days that achievements are the only things that keep me playing.

Makes me feel dead inside.

 

[BillyShakes]

The best part is that everytime you bring up the issue to Bethesda it is your systems fault. Even if you are on a console.

Bethesda games are bitter sweet.

In theory they are so fucking good. But in practice they crash more frequently than Courtney Love.

I wasn't talking about the games crashing, I was stating how I believe them to be so far against the idea of immersion that they took it out to the field in the back with a crowbar in hand.

Well slap my ass and call me captain conundrum. I must have been high or something.

My bad on the misquote . I totally read your post as something different. Confirmation bias ftl.

Perfectly understandable.
By the way, I did enjoy that Courtney Love comment.

 

[Trivun]

Anything where I lag a lot or where there are plenty of loading screens. Don't get me wrong, I love Oblivion. But the loading screens really piss me off. And L4D? Great game but it lags like hell on my PC since I have a laptop and can't upgrade the graphics card. If I could get it on Xbox I would, but can't afford it (and I can't sell the PC version either as it's already been Steam activated...).

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

I do remember getting deeply immersed in a game once, no distractions to bother me or anything, when all of a sudded

Spoiler

Achievement unlocked
I have nothing against achievements, but when it randomly pops up and reminds me that I am Not a Lightning shooting Lizard with Magical pants, then I get upset

 

[Bob_Bobbington]

Exploring the DC ruins only to find a body with no head or arms with the giblets of said limbs hovering in the air where they would be if he didn't explode. Really funny but jesus it all came falling down around me.

 

[chef-boyR-D]

getting stuck on round objects like lamp posts or rocks, and crashing into invisible walls that shouldn't be there. Those things tend to break immersion for me. I was also recently playing through Crisis when I was attacked by an enemy an floated through a wall.Despite my best efforts the only thing that got me out was reloading. A similar occurance was during one of the final fights in Assasin's Creed. I charge attacked the last guard fighting me into that blasted memory fog and the game reloaded.